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Futurebrands launches ‘Mohena’ inner and nightwear products designed for Indian women

October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Futurebrands, India’s first Brand IPR company with a portfolio of 20 brands across apparels, FMCG and home durables categories, is launching Mohena- a new brand in the lingerie and nightwear category. Futurebrands is a subsidiary of Pantaloon Retail ( India) Limited — a Kishore Biyani-led Future group company.
Mohena– the lingerie and nightwear brand– which has [...]

Tags: Apparel · Indian Owned · Kishore Biyani (Future Group) · Lifestyle Segment · New Ventures/ New Launch/ Expansion/ Investment

Liverpool to set yet another record; plans 1,150 new ‘fashion’ stores in the next 18 months

October 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Liverpool Retail, an Ahmedabad-based fashion retailer, which presently operates a chain of exclusive menswear retail stores across India, UAE and Nepal, launched its first family store on Thursday, the 15th October, 2009, at its home base in Ahmedabad. Liverpool hold the distinction of launching 151 stores on a single day. The feat is now part [...]

Tags: Accessories · Apparel · Expansion/ New Investment · Indian Owned · Leather/ Footwear · New Ventures/ New Launch/ Expansion/ Investment · Specialty/ Concept stores · Value Segment

Allen Solly to reinvent itself as full ‘lifestyle’ brand; expand present portfolio to add women’s fashion products

October 14th, 2009 · No Comments

Allen Solly, the Rs 250 crore (2009 turnover) fashion apparel brand, which accounts for 28 to 30 per cent of Madura Garments’ turnover, is reinventing itself from the image of ’semi-formals’ and ‘casuals’ brand to a brand of fashion and personalcare lifestyle products. Madura Garments– a Kumar Mangalam Birla group company, is also retailing several [...]

Tags: Accessories · Aditya Birla (More/ Other) · Advertising, Promotions, Pricing, PR · Apparel · Brands/ Strategy · Expansion/ New Investment · Health, Beauty, Wellness · Image Makeover · Indian Owned · Lifestyle Segment · Specialty/ Concept stores

‘Provogue’ to recast business strategy; focus on small format stores, prefer vendor labels, limit expasnsion of discount format stores

October 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Reeling under pressure of sharply declining operating margins and slow growth in sales, Mumbai-based, lifestyle, fashion retailer and mall developer Provogue, according to a BS report, has decided to recast its future business plans and strategies.
The company has registered a sharp decline of 500 basis points (bps) or 5 per cent in its operating margin [...]

Tags: Accessories · Apparel · Brands/ Strategy · Consolidation/ Restructuring · Economic Slowdown · Expansion/ New Investment · Indian Owned · Lifestyle Segment · MBO (Multi Brand Outlet) · Private Label · Property/ Realty · Shop-in-Shop (SIS) · Specialty/ Concept stores

Future looks at ’sports’ as growth segment; aims Rs 1,000 cr of annual sales in future

September 30th, 2009 · No Comments

Kishore Biyani-led Future group, which operates several multi-format, multi-product retail chains across consumer segments, is looking at sports business segment as one of the potential categories that can help shape its ambitious future growth plans. The group, as may be recalled, has recently announced its goal of achieving Rs 250 billion (Rs 25,000 crore) in [...]

Tags: Accessories · Apparel · Brands/ Strategy · Consolidation/ Restructuring · Expansion/ New Investment · Indian Owned · Kishore Biyani (Future Group) · Leather/ Footwear · Lifestyle Segment · MBO (Multi Brand Outlet) · SBO (Single Brand Outlets) · Specialty/ Concept stores

Bharti-Walmart JV undertakes several social initiatives; provides push-carts, adopts schools, trains youth, plants saplings and maintains roads

September 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Bharti Wal-Mart, which began its India operations with opening of cash and carry (B2B) wholesale store under the banner of “Best Price Modern Wholesale” in the holy city of Amritsar in Punjab, has also begun partenering with the government (PPP) as well as large multi-national private sector corporates to undertake projects of social importance.
Bharti walmart [...]

Tags: Accessories · Apparel · Bharti (Bharti Retail/ Bharti-Wal-Mart) · Cash & Carry / B2B/ Wholesale · Events/ Happenings · FMCG · Food and Grocery · Fresh Foods · Homeware/ Household · JV/ Franchisee · Multi-product Categories · Social Responsibility

Vishal Retail offers equity shares to vendors in lieu of goods? “The worst is not over yet,” says Agrawal

August 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Although, Ram Chandra Agrawal-led Vishal Retail, which went public in July 2007, could succeed in bringing down its quarterly losses from Rs 115 crore in Q4 2009 (ending March, 2009) to Rs 90 crore in Q1 2010 (ending June, 2009), it is continuing to struggle hard to come out of the financially difficult situation.
While, the [...]

Tags: Accessories · Apparel · Capital/ PE/ IPO · Consumer Electronics/ Home Appliances · Downsizing/ Closure · Economic Slowdown · FMCG · Food and Grocery · HR/ Employment · Home: Furniture & Improvement · Homeware/ Household · Indian Owned · Leather/ Footwear · Lifestyle Segment · Megastores/ Mini-Hypermarkets · Mobiles/ Telecom · Multi-product Categories · Value Segment · Vishal (Agarwals)

‘The days of shut-downs are over,’ says Spencer’s Goenka; Being optimistic about revival, retailer restarts expansion

August 19th, 2009 · No Comments

Spencer’s Retail, a Sanjiv Goenka-led retail arm of RPG group, which once ran a multi-format retail chain of around 400 stores, has trimmed down its operations in the last one year to bring down the number of its stores to 264.
The business, which was badly affected due to decline in demand as a consequence of [...]

Tags: Accessories · Apparel · Books/ Music/ Toys/ Gifts/ Leisure · Capital/ PE/ IPO · Consolidation/ Restructuring · Consumer Electronics/ Home Appliances · Downsizing/ Closure · Economic Slowdown · Economy · Expansion/ New Investment · FMCG · Food and Grocery · Fresh Foods · HR/ Employment · Home: Furniture & Improvement · Homeware/ Household · Hypermarket/ Supercentre · Indian Owned · Leather/ Footwear · Lifestyle Segment · Megastores/ Mini-Hypermarkets · Multi-format · RPG (Spencer's/ Other) · Restaurants · Supermarkets/ Megastores · Value Segment

Shoppers’ Stop’s Nagesh moves into non-executive position; Shrikhande to take over as President & CEO; new organisation structure to become effective from today

August 18th, 2009 · No Comments

B S Nagesh, the public face of India’s leading department format retail chain and managing director of Shoppers Stop, who has been working with the company since its inception in 1991, is taking over as Vice Chairman of the company, from today.
Founded 19 years ago on the 27th October, 1991 with the unveiling of its [...]

Tags: Accessories · Apparel · Books/ Music/ Toys/ Gifts/ Leisure · Consolidation/ Restructuring · Consumer Electronics/ Home Appliances · Department Store · FMCG · Food and Grocery · HR/ Employment · Health, Beauty, Wellness · Home: Furniture & Improvement · Homeware/ Household · Indian Owned · Jewellery · Leather/ Footwear · Lifestyle Segment · Multi-format · Multi-product Categories · Restaurants · Shoppers' Stop/ HyperCity

Van Heusen to aggressively expand retail network; expects to add 25 new stores to existing 65, this year

August 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Van Heusen, among the leading men’s formal wear apparel brands of Kumar Mangalam Birla-led Madura Garments, is looking at expanding formats and adding new stores across the country in the coming months.
Van Heusen, the leading formal wear apparel brand mainly catering to the needs of men, is looking at adding new stores across the country [...]

Tags: Accessories · Aditya Birla (More/ Other) · Advertising, Promotions, Pricing, PR · Apparel · Expansion/ New Investment · Indian Owned · JV/ Franchisee · Leather/ Footwear · Lifestyle Segment · Specialty/ Concept stores

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